Duck Stamp Increase is Now Law
05-15-2015, 04:11 AM
#11
Spike
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Midwest USA
Posts: 37
Teedee5, you don't have a clue about what you are talking about! The money from the purchase of migratory waterfowl stamps is used to provide waterfowl habitat in the US and fund federal waterfowl refuges. This is a cost that was asked for and supported by hunters when the waterfowl population in North America was destroyed. I suggest you do some research on the stamp before you make such ridiculous statements. If it had not been for the forward thinking of some legislators and sportsmen, our waterfowl population would have been too low to hunt decades ago. It is a sad situation when sportsmen make posts like yours in this matter. If you don't want to hunt waterfowl, don't do it, it is not mandatory, however also don't bad mouth the instrument that helped restore waterfowl in the US.
Moreover, talk of increasing the cost of the duck stamp started way before the current POTUS took office. It just happens to be one of the pieces of legislation that ended up on his desk and not the next guy's.
10-01-2015, 04:15 PM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: ne oklahoma
Posts: 124
So, as I understand it, yual believe that this money goes into a lockbox which is only opened and dealt out to the states.?
Like the excise taxes on sporting goods, the highway funds returned and all the SS taxes that went into the into the lockbox before Johnson got his hands in the till.
All taxes go into the general fund.
Sounds to me that some in NJ and Mich. are trying to defend the indefensible. what is that state color?
I wish that all the sportsman taxes went back to the states because at this point in time the hunt licenses in the US have been on the decline for some time.
some states wildlife depts. do a good job in maintaining the wildlife some don't.
funding depends upon how the wildlife depts. were set up. Kansas receives more funds that the sale of hunt and fish fees provides. others dont.
Unfortunately, Ok. funds are dependent upon the sale of fish/hunt and special hunt licenses and the proceeds from lifetime licenses invested. now that's a lockbox that works.
Like the excise taxes on sporting goods, the highway funds returned and all the SS taxes that went into the into the lockbox before Johnson got his hands in the till.
All taxes go into the general fund.
Sounds to me that some in NJ and Mich. are trying to defend the indefensible. what is that state color?
I wish that all the sportsman taxes went back to the states because at this point in time the hunt licenses in the US have been on the decline for some time.
some states wildlife depts. do a good job in maintaining the wildlife some don't.
funding depends upon how the wildlife depts. were set up. Kansas receives more funds that the sale of hunt and fish fees provides. others dont.
Unfortunately, Ok. funds are dependent upon the sale of fish/hunt and special hunt licenses and the proceeds from lifetime licenses invested. now that's a lockbox that works.
